- For PLC`s (started by individuals)
- Weekly PD sessions for teachers. Teachers with experts, admin with experts, admin with admin, admin with teachers
- PLC time
- Model tech relevance during PD
- What can individuals do? Experiment, dedicate a small amount of time to play in order to learn. You can not teach what you do not own
Student Voice (16 dots)
- Flexible curriculum, perhaps more open-ended
- Mandate student choice, voice, and clarity of knowledge, expectations, instruction, strengths, etc by students
- Student generated curriculum (within parameters)
- Have students in-service teachers and admin on where they see education going
- Survey student ideas
- Empowering kids (students) with the technology/tools to teach others (teachers)
- Get the students to advocate for the change
Culture (13 dots)
- Try new things
- Whats working? Vision, acceptance, ideas
- Structure school days differently
- Give people explicit permission to take risks
- Allow students to study their interests
- Technology focused high school gets established as a pilot school
- Stop thinking of computers as a subject area.. integrate
- Speak up! agree to share whats working in your classroom
- Blended elearning and face to face classes
- Be an advocate for change
- Team teaching so all teachers dont have to know it all
- Getting rid of competition
- Onward! No whining! Positive attitudes
- Start small the "just do it attitude"
Collaboration (11 dots)
- Give innovators the opportunity/time in the school day to share great ideas
- Teachers can model and share with their colleagues. Prove success
- More team teaching collaboration. Teachers teaching and watching one another
- Teachers collaborating from all over the world not just being on own in classroom with the door closed (facial networking)
- Working now? Allowing this process to occur in the first place, Encouraging collaboration for extending learning process for kds
- Teachers must demonstrate the power of collaborative learning networks for themselves and their students
- Forums to share and interact directly with other districts
- Share your passions with your peers ib a daily basis
Reverse Mentorship (8 dots)
- Showcase the kids and let them show you
- Teaching teachers to be facilitators
- Ask kids what they think will help
- Give the tools to the students, they will teach it to you
- Students bring own prior knowledge and ability to learn tech quickly
Assessment (4 dots)
- Mandatory course on digital citizenship for kids at elementary/middle/high school levels
- Getting rid of marks
- Create pilot programs to illustrate the possibilities
Parents (3 dots)
- Parent education and buy in
- Post lessons online. Let parents into classroom
- Educate selves, play around at home, what can individuals do?
- Have sessions for parents on the importance of technology in the classroom and have examples
- Parents need sessions to understand ed. shifts/need for shifts in educations
Filter (0 dots)
- Unblock internet at all schools
- Teach safety
- Work around the sites that are blocked
- Show the educational usages and teach students how to use for school/educate
- Move forward, just do it!
- Overcome barriers
Mentors (9 dots)
- Individuals can share their learning with others using the technology we all have access to
- Continue to share what I do, try to ignite the passion in others
- Mentoring and modeling
- Leading by example
- Be encouraged to experiment/take risks
- Sign up for twitter and developed PLN
- "Maven" to help staff learn tools
- Relationship building
- Individuals need to advocate for change by showing positive examples of learning in action
- Provide and "expert" in each school to act as the tech support
Publishing Communication (1 dot)
- Eliminate textbooks
- Publish success stories in professional magazines
- Educate community through local media on the desire to shift methods of teaching.
- Take principals to schools that are using tech in an innovative 21st century way to help get them to spend money
- Celebrating the teachers who are working for change by having/encouraging them to be more transparent
1-1 ( 13 dots)
- 1:1 tech access and networks capable of supporters
- Purchase hardware to connect all students
- One ipad to take home/child/teachers
- One laptop per child/teacher
- 1:1 laptop
Time (29 dots)
- Google the work week. 1 day per week is allocated to a personal project
- Sections to overcome barriers. Ask for time and resources
- Give teachers release time during school day to learn new technologies
- Individuals should be leaders and want to share best practices to as many people as possible
Gov. Policy (28 dots)
- Need to actually state support for teachers who use this
- I would like to use schools not constrained by bells or set periods
- A unit in technology to address proper use of computers and other interactive technology
- Revise curriculums and the way we think about them
- No race to the top
- No MEAP, ACT, NAEP
- No NCLB
- Protection from litigation
- Teachers need to be freed from the shackles of the institution. Freed to take risks without fear of reprisal
- Dont be handcuffed by MOE
- Scrap standardized testing and curriculum passion-based learning for all!
- Curriculum needs revision to incorporate this along with PD to support it. PD in terms of community support
- Integrate technological standards into teacher evaluation
- No AYP
- The fact that this is a grassroots movement suggests that it should meet with a more positive reception than the top down approach
- Infiltrate teacher education with appropriate pedagogy (one that includes tech. content)
- Curriculum change: developing a "digital citizen" from primary grades through high school
- Major government initiation to digitalize curriculum, classroom, and teachers
Resources (43 dots)
- Money invested in technology training
- Make netbooks available to members of the faculty- running properly on the network
- Enough equipment to support initiatives
- Allow students to bring their laptops to heir wireless schools
- Money
- Need to purchase more equipment
- Seek alternative funding source (ie-grants, corporate affiliations)
- Boards spending money on technology
- Provide resources in school to implement technology and make it easily accessible
- Allow data plan phones in with the code of conduct
- Schools/boards can spend money on wireless infrastructures to allow students to bring in their own devices
- Have smart board in my room permanently.
- Easy access to technology
- Make sure the people with the purse strings see how these changes enhance learning
- Systems could pull money resources from multiple portfolios to fund technology integration. (ie- 10% of budget from SPED, curric., IT, etc to build in tech!)
- Break the current HS brick and mortar model. Grade 11-12 project based collaborative with university industry
- Sharing of lesson plans/ideas/re web 2.0 ongoing
- Provide students in HS with digital devices on Sept 1- on loan- from school library
- Provide each student with one piece of technology (iPod touch, iPhone, notepad, laptop- for sharing and collaborating)
- Get rid of all paper based texts, resources, lesson plans, and markbooks
- Variety of technology to experiment within classroom
Vision (26 dots)
- Buy in from administration to the PLP concept is working now
- Shared vision and communication. Greatest impact on student learning and achievement
- Bottom up development of priorities not top down
- Change will occur more quickly with a bottom-up demand rather than a top down command
- Need to educate decision makers
- The people making the decision need to know what the possibilities are
- Integrate teacher education programs with local school systems
- Barriers: no DI for PD sessions. Collaborative inquiry model of PD/PLC
- Focus on student work
- change needs to be aggressive
- Set clear expectations and timelines
- Working: integrated teams.
- Monitor implementation
Partnering/Networking/Community (17 dots)
- Educate parents, school boards, community
- Utilize the champions in the district. Listening to someone talk passionately at something powerful
- Get Best Buy to create an Air Miles Plan for cheap education tools
- Team teaching. combines subject specific curriculum expectations using web 2.0 tools
- Board works collaboratively with all departments to implement the goal
- The board crates a common vision that all departments agree with and follow
- It is used consistently
- Allow sharing to become viral
- Working now: Collaborating and sharing
- Provide one on one instruction and learning
- Partner and network teachers and students in teaching and learning
- Universities need to partner with schools to create better teacher preparation
- having "real world" people get involved to share new skills like innovation and creativity are key for future employers
Access (25 dots)
- Ensure every teacher/student has access to technology
-24 hr access to technology for all students
- All students had noteboooks or iphones that are provided to them
- More and more smart boards being purchased
- All classrooms had wireless
- Wireless access available
- Board wide wireless network
- More IT staff to make things happen!
- In-focus projector mounted in every classroom
- Increase access to technology.
- Encourage students to bring devices to school and use them regularly
- Teachers are given the latest technology to explore and expand their own learning. This would promote teachers to work on their own time
- Using technology and eliminate all textbooks so students are using the latest best resources
- Re-format the way we communicate into one place so that time is saved by only visiting one environment
- Affordable, easily upgradeable technology for all learners
- Classrooms in kindergarten are hands-on with technology not waiting until intermediate
Support (hardware/software) (17 dots)
- Get students to bring in technology
- Wireless and notebooks in the classroom so lots of access
- Equipment maintenance
- Share laptops and lab time
- Tech team leaders that are accessible, who have been teachers
- Access to expert IT people who know how to facilitate
- Human resources. -board level -building level
- Every school with wireless access
- Every school have a portable netbook or iPad lab
- Innovative ideas: Schools just seem to need the technology to be reliable "field of dreams" if you build it, rocks will come
- Actions to overcome: Make technology a priority at senior admin level
Professional Development (38 dots)
- Self-directed personalized PD plan (facilitated by administration)
- Flexible choice of medium and time for PD. (independent, after school, district wide, small group, large group)
- Develop 21st century teacher training curriculum
- Embedding technology into all curriculum from administrative and school levels
Professional Learning (38 dots)
- Creating PD teams to improve skills/knowledge
- Whats working now is the grassroots revolution of people like us. We just need to spread the revolution
- Give administrators the opportunity to experience what can be done with these tools
- Technology is happening but its pace is slow. Allocate more PD for training
- PD sessions for 2010-2011 all address some aspect of web 2.0
- Embedded professional development- time for technology coordinator to make regular visit to teach teachers or use the technology in the clssroom
- PD training on programs and how they can use them in their specific subject areas and grades
- Time- people need more time to learn and more direction
- Teachers are given PD and time to implement initiative/ideas/new technology
- Create time in PD or staff meeting agendas
- Daily time to do PD
- On going PD time set aside per week
- PD for staff
- All staff involved in PLP type training
- It can be individualized to meet the learning styles and needs of all
- Weekly PD time instead of periodic whole day sessions
- Time now, less time later
- Teachers provided consecutive days to immerse themselves (with others) in the technology. Experience and see potential for students
- Give every teacher a netbook preloaded with the best web 2.0 tools
- Tech integrated into other initiatives eg support staff trained and embed in own PD
- Integrate benefits of technology in all PD
- Programs that can support PD
- Train literacy coaches to implement into schools (tech piece) a few key strategies ex- podcasts, blogs, wikis
- PD can be individualized to meet the learning styles and needs of all
- Provide PD in use of a suite of tools and application to address specific learning needs
- Support for learning how to use technology effectively
- Required/mandatory intense teacher technology development with a pay raise of course!
- Baby steps for the rocks
- Multiple PD days in now to learn and create
- Working: Giving PD to teachers to collaborate on technology ideas such as PLP
- Individual PD sessions with teachers
- More specific PD with activities that could be used immediately
- We need to allow teachers to do passion-based PD. Gie them the time to learn and implement
- Individuals can: team up, work together. There seems to be much more power in numbers
- PD small focused self created PD groups (much like PLP groups) with release time (google time)
- Personal PD training out of school time for "late adapters"
- Personalized PD
- Give teachers self-directed PD oppertunities
- PLP, PD from Carole Scott
- Job embedded PD practices can be established
- Senior administrators attend regional PLP meetings
- PD with curriclum ties.. sample lessons/classroom
- PD must focus on thinking/learning not "click, light, bell" tied to learning
- PD for admin to show advantages/uses of tech
- Educate administrators (web 2.0, social media, etc)
- More teacher-led, collaborative PD
- Practice solutions: expand PLP membership to 2 teachers/school
- Educate themselves. Inquire/explore
- Authentic learning/ PD for educators to meet their individual needs/learning styles
- PD show and tell them vs now- see how passion based learning changed my classroom
- Provide clear examples and models of effective practice with opportunities for coaching
- New idea: PD new teacher- mentor model for 21st century skill
- PD opportunities to teach digital citizenship for teachers afraid of behavior issues
- Offer workshops for colleagues
- Target (teacher training programs) have 21st century learning part of that teaching
- Over come barriers. Spend more time on technology in the facility of ed - integrated into core subjects
- Choice
- Change- teacher readiness for the "new world"
- Build it into PD thats already happening
- Involve teachers in PD planning
- PD that meets the needs of the individual not the group
- Better use of PD to overcome teacher fear, teacher reluctance
PLC (4 dots)
- For PLC`s (started by individuals)
- Weekly PD sessions for teachers. Teachers with experts, admin with experts, admin with admin, admin with teachers
- PLC time
- Model tech relevance during PD
- What can individuals do? Experiment, dedicate a small amount of time to play in order to learn. You can not teach what you do not own
Student Voice (16 dots)
- Flexible curriculum, perhaps more open-ended
- Mandate student choice, voice, and clarity of knowledge, expectations, instruction, strengths, etc by students
- Student generated curriculum (within parameters)
- Have students in-service teachers and admin on where they see education going
- Survey student ideas
- Empowering kids (students) with the technology/tools to teach others (teachers)
- Get the students to advocate for the change
Culture (13 dots)
- Try new things
- Whats working? Vision, acceptance, ideas
- Structure school days differently
- Give people explicit permission to take risks
- Allow students to study their interests
- Technology focused high school gets established as a pilot school
- Stop thinking of computers as a subject area.. integrate
- Speak up! agree to share whats working in your classroom
- Blended elearning and face to face classes
- Be an advocate for change
- Team teaching so all teachers dont have to know it all
- Getting rid of competition
- Onward! No whining! Positive attitudes
- Start small the "just do it attitude"
Collaboration (11 dots)
- Give innovators the opportunity/time in the school day to share great ideas
- Teachers can model and share with their colleagues. Prove success
- More team teaching collaboration. Teachers teaching and watching one another
- Teachers collaborating from all over the world not just being on own in classroom with the door closed (facial networking)
- Working now? Allowing this process to occur in the first place, Encouraging collaboration for extending learning process for kds
- Teachers must demonstrate the power of collaborative learning networks for themselves and their students
- Forums to share and interact directly with other districts
- Share your passions with your peers ib a daily basis
Reverse Mentorship (8 dots)
- Showcase the kids and let them show you
- Teaching teachers to be facilitators
- Ask kids what they think will help
- Give the tools to the students, they will teach it to you
- Students bring own prior knowledge and ability to learn tech quickly
Assessment (4 dots)
- Mandatory course on digital citizenship for kids at elementary/middle/high school levels
- Getting rid of marks
- Create pilot programs to illustrate the possibilities
Parents (3 dots)
- Parent education and buy in
- Post lessons online. Let parents into classroom
- Educate selves, play around at home, what can individuals do?
- Have sessions for parents on the importance of technology in the classroom and have examples
- Parents need sessions to understand ed. shifts/need for shifts in educations
Filter (0 dots)
- Unblock internet at all schools
- Teach safety
- Work around the sites that are blocked
- Show the educational usages and teach students how to use for school/educate
- Move forward, just do it!
- Overcome barriers
Mentors (9 dots)
- Individuals can share their learning with others using the technology we all have access to
- Continue to share what I do, try to ignite the passion in others
- Mentoring and modeling
- Leading by example
- Be encouraged to experiment/take risks
- Sign up for twitter and developed PLN
- "Maven" to help staff learn tools
- Relationship building
- Individuals need to advocate for change by showing positive examples of learning in action
- Provide and "expert" in each school to act as the tech support
Publishing Communication (1 dot)
- Eliminate textbooks
- Publish success stories in professional magazines
- Educate community through local media on the desire to shift methods of teaching.
- Take principals to schools that are using tech in an innovative 21st century way to help get them to spend money
- Celebrating the teachers who are working for change by having/encouraging them to be more transparent
1-1 ( 13 dots)
- 1:1 tech access and networks capable of supporters
- Purchase hardware to connect all students
- One ipad to take home/child/teachers
- One laptop per child/teacher
- 1:1 laptop
Time (29 dots)
- Google the work week. 1 day per week is allocated to a personal project
- Sections to overcome barriers. Ask for time and resources
- Give teachers release time during school day to learn new technologies
- Individuals should be leaders and want to share best practices to as many people as possible
Gov. Policy (28 dots)
- Need to actually state support for teachers who use this
- I would like to use schools not constrained by bells or set periods
- A unit in technology to address proper use of computers and other interactive technology
- Revise curriculums and the way we think about them
- No race to the top
- No MEAP, ACT, NAEP
- No NCLB
- Protection from litigation
- Teachers need to be freed from the shackles of the institution. Freed to take risks without fear of reprisal
- Dont be handcuffed by MOE
- Scrap standardized testing and curriculum passion-based learning for all!
- Curriculum needs revision to incorporate this along with PD to support it. PD in terms of community support
- Integrate technological standards into teacher evaluation
- No AYP
- The fact that this is a grassroots movement suggests that it should meet with a more positive reception than the top down approach
- Infiltrate teacher education with appropriate pedagogy (one that includes tech. content)
- Curriculum change: developing a "digital citizen" from primary grades through high school
- Major government initiation to digitalize curriculum, classroom, and teachers
Resources (43 dots)
- Money invested in technology training
- Make netbooks available to members of the faculty- running properly on the network
- Enough equipment to support initiatives
- Allow students to bring their laptops to heir wireless schools
- Money
- Need to purchase more equipment
- Seek alternative funding source (ie-grants, corporate affiliations)
- Boards spending money on technology
- Provide resources in school to implement technology and make it easily accessible
- Allow data plan phones in with the code of conduct
- Schools/boards can spend money on wireless infrastructures to allow students to bring in their own devices
- Have smart board in my room permanently.
- Easy access to technology
- Make sure the people with the purse strings see how these changes enhance learning
- Systems could pull money resources from multiple portfolios to fund technology integration. (ie- 10% of budget from SPED, curric., IT, etc to build in tech!)
- Break the current HS brick and mortar model. Grade 11-12 project based collaborative with university industry
- Sharing of lesson plans/ideas/re web 2.0 ongoing
- Provide students in HS with digital devices on Sept 1- on loan- from school library
- Provide each student with one piece of technology (iPod touch, iPhone, notepad, laptop- for sharing and collaborating)
- Get rid of all paper based texts, resources, lesson plans, and markbooks
- Variety of technology to experiment within classroom
Vision (26 dots)
- Buy in from administration to the PLP concept is working now
- Shared vision and communication. Greatest impact on student learning and achievement
- Bottom up development of priorities not top down
- Change will occur more quickly with a bottom-up demand rather than a top down command
- Need to educate decision makers
- The people making the decision need to know what the possibilities are
- Integrate teacher education programs with local school systems
- Barriers: no DI for PD sessions. Collaborative inquiry model of PD/PLC
- Focus on student work
- change needs to be aggressive
- Set clear expectations and timelines
- Working: integrated teams.
- Monitor implementation
Partnering/Networking/Community (17 dots)
- Educate parents, school boards, community
- Utilize the champions in the district. Listening to someone talk passionately at something powerful
- Get Best Buy to create an Air Miles Plan for cheap education tools
- Team teaching. combines subject specific curriculum expectations using web 2.0 tools
- Board works collaboratively with all departments to implement the goal
- The board crates a common vision that all departments agree with and follow
- It is used consistently
- Allow sharing to become viral
- Working now: Collaborating and sharing
- Provide one on one instruction and learning
- Partner and network teachers and students in teaching and learning
- Universities need to partner with schools to create better teacher preparation
- having "real world" people get involved to share new skills like innovation and creativity are key for future employers
Access (25 dots)
- Ensure every teacher/student has access to technology
-24 hr access to technology for all students
- All students had noteboooks or iphones that are provided to them
- More and more smart boards being purchased
- All classrooms had wireless
- Wireless access available
- Board wide wireless network
- More IT staff to make things happen!
- In-focus projector mounted in every classroom
- Increase access to technology.
- Encourage students to bring devices to school and use them regularly
- Teachers are given the latest technology to explore and expand their own learning. This would promote teachers to work on their own time
- Using technology and eliminate all textbooks so students are using the latest best resources
- Re-format the way we communicate into one place so that time is saved by only visiting one environment
- Affordable, easily upgradeable technology for all learners
- Classrooms in kindergarten are hands-on with technology not waiting until intermediate
Support (hardware/software) (17 dots)
- Get students to bring in technology
- Wireless and notebooks in the classroom so lots of access
- Equipment maintenance
- Share laptops and lab time
- Tech team leaders that are accessible, who have been teachers
- Access to expert IT people who know how to facilitate
- Human resources. -board level -building level
- Every school with wireless access
- Every school have a portable netbook or iPad lab
- Innovative ideas: Schools just seem to need the technology to be reliable "field of dreams" if you build it, rocks will come
- Actions to overcome: Make technology a priority at senior admin level
Professional Development (38 dots)
- Self-directed personalized PD plan (facilitated by administration)
- Flexible choice of medium and time for PD. (independent, after school, district wide, small group, large group)
- Develop 21st century teacher training curriculum
- Embedding technology into all curriculum from administrative and school levels
Professional Learning (38 dots)
- Creating PD teams to improve skills/knowledge
- Whats working now is the grassroots revolution of people like us. We just need to spread the revolution
- Give administrators the opportunity to experience what can be done with these tools
- Technology is happening but its pace is slow. Allocate more PD for training
- PD sessions for 2010-2011 all address some aspect of web 2.0
- Embedded professional development- time for technology coordinator to make regular visit to teach teachers or use the technology in the clssroom
- PD training on programs and how they can use them in their specific subject areas and grades
- Time- people need more time to learn and more direction
- Teachers are given PD and time to implement initiative/ideas/new technology
- Create time in PD or staff meeting agendas
- Daily time to do PD
- On going PD time set aside per week
- PD for staff
- All staff involved in PLP type training
- It can be individualized to meet the learning styles and needs of all
- Weekly PD time instead of periodic whole day sessions
- Time now, less time later
- Teachers provided consecutive days to immerse themselves (with others) in the technology. Experience and see potential for students
- Give every teacher a netbook preloaded with the best web 2.0 tools
- Tech integrated into other initiatives eg support staff trained and embed in own PD
- Integrate benefits of technology in all PD
- Programs that can support PD
- Train literacy coaches to implement into schools (tech piece) a few key strategies ex- podcasts, blogs, wikis
- PD can be individualized to meet the learning styles and needs of all
- Provide PD in use of a suite of tools and application to address specific learning needs
- Support for learning how to use technology effectively
- Required/mandatory intense teacher technology development with a pay raise of course!
- Baby steps for the rocks
- Multiple PD days in now to learn and create
- Working: Giving PD to teachers to collaborate on technology ideas such as PLP
- Individual PD sessions with teachers
- More specific PD with activities that could be used immediately
- We need to allow teachers to do passion-based PD. Gie them the time to learn and implement
- Individuals can: team up, work together. There seems to be much more power in numbers
- PD small focused self created PD groups (much like PLP groups) with release time (google time)
- Personal PD training out of school time for "late adapters"
- Personalized PD
- Give teachers self-directed PD oppertunities
- PLP, PD from Carole Scott
- Job embedded PD practices can be established
- Senior administrators attend regional PLP meetings
- PD with curriclum ties.. sample lessons/classroom
- PD must focus on thinking/learning not "click, light, bell" tied to learning
- PD for admin to show advantages/uses of tech
- Educate administrators (web 2.0, social media, etc)
- More teacher-led, collaborative PD
- Practice solutions: expand PLP membership to 2 teachers/school
- Educate themselves. Inquire/explore
- Authentic learning/ PD for educators to meet their individual needs/learning styles
- PD show and tell them vs now- see how passion based learning changed my classroom
- Provide clear examples and models of effective practice with opportunities for coaching
- New idea: PD new teacher- mentor model for 21st century skill
- PD opportunities to teach digital citizenship for teachers afraid of behavior issues
- Offer workshops for colleagues
- Target (teacher training programs) have 21st century learning part of that teaching
- Over come barriers. Spend more time on technology in the facility of ed - integrated into core subjects
- Choice
- Change- teacher readiness for the "new world"
- Build it into PD thats already happening
- Involve teachers in PD planning
- PD that meets the needs of the individual not the group
- Better use of PD to overcome teacher fear, teacher reluctance